Iraq, not Iraqi I know, I messed up my title change.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...228492355.html
Bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed tens of people, police and medical sources have said.
Suicide bomb attacks killed at least 35 people in Kadhimiya, a Shia area in northern Baghdad, and two other car bomb attacks killed nine people in Kirkuk, police sources have said.
The explosions near a Shia mosque in Kirkuk holding displaced people came after an offensive launched by Islamic State fighters who have routed Kurdish forces in the north, causing thousands of people to flee.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27869112
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/03/world/...-crisis-isis/\The Iraqi government appears to have blocked Facebook, Twitter and other social media, amid escalating combat.
Users in the country attempting to visit these sites are greeted by a message saying the Ministry of Communications has barred access.
The move comes after Islamist insurgents used Twitter to post a graphic image of a beheaded man, and to spread propaganda messages.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5620520.htmlCNN) -- Fighters with the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reached the triangle border between Iraq, Syria and Turkey, it said in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday.
ISIS took control of Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam on Iraq's Tigris River, which provides power to the city of Mosul about 50 kilometers (31 miles) to the south, the commander of the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters who had been defending the facility said Sunday.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-...-prompts-panicThe militant group ISIS is continuing its rampage of holy places by destroying the tomb of Jonah, a place thought to be the burial site of the prophet believed by Abrahamic faiths to have been swallowed by a whale or fish.
Civil defense officials in Mosul, Iraq, told CNN that ISIS operatives planted explosives around the mosque containing the tomb then detonated it remotely on Thursday.
The situation for Iraqis in the north-west of the country, especially those from the Yezidi and Christian minority communities, is becoming increasingly dire as both residents and many of those already displaced are now fleeing their homes and places of shelter,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Senior Crisis Response Adviser, who is currently in northern Iraq.
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